Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol. 1 (DVD) Reviews
Description:Genre: Television - Doctor Who / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Keith Brook, Euros Lyn / Actors: Christopher ... more
Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol. 1 (DVD) ... Eccleston, Billie Piper ... / DVD released 16 May, 2005 at 2 Entertain Video / Features of the DVD: PAL / It was always going to be a risk for the BBC to revamp Doctor Who--few television programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he’s a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, this Doctor Who is a hero for the new millennium. --Robert Burrow
Newest Review: ... 2 in the case of Rose). It's not bad for an introductory episode, reviving a race called the autons who are made out of ... more
... living plastic. All hell breaks loose when the shop manakins start to come alive and in one camp scene you even see whellie bins creeping up on unsuspecting victims.
It's pretty light-weight but there's plenty of action in there and the scene where the Doctor first meets Rose is absolutely brillaint stuff.
The second episode carries on with this light-weight tone and never really for me (the weakest of the 3). The Doctor takes rose to "The End of the World" (also the episode title) where special guests hav...more
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Customer Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol. 1 (DVD) Reviews (9)
by - written on 01/04/08 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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Back in 2005 the BBC made the genius decision to bring back one of the corporation's most famous television shows ever, DOCTOR WHO. The series had originally run from 1963 until 1989, but had been cancelled due to poor ratings. Apart from a brief re-emergence in 1996 with a TV movie starring Paul McGann, which should have led to a new series but didn't, this was the last we saw of The Doctor on our screens until 2005. The series had however lived on, in a long series of novels (originally published by Virgin, with the BBC later taking back the rights), and audio releases, officially made by Big Finish, although many fans had also made their own audio (and ... Read the complete review
Doctor Who - Rose From The Dead (1572 words)by - written on 15/07/05, updated on 15/07/05 (Very useful, 444 readings)
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I have been a fan of Dr Who for around thirty years. I was brought up watching it with my Dad, a fan since the first episode in 1963. In 1997, I met Nik at a Dr Who weekend in Llangollen. We got engaged at a Dr Who convention in 1998 and after our wedding in 2002, we spent part of our honeymoon in the Dr Who Exhibition in Llangollen. For years, I was in the minority. I still watched Dr Who? At my age?? We have an almost full size Cyberman head and a four foot high inflatable Dalek in our living room. How bizarre. They're a bit weird, these Dr Who fans, aren't they? But it's now 2005 and the brand new series has hit our TV screens and is a huge ... Read the complete review
by - written on 22/01/10 (Very useful, 10 readings)
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And Doctor Who rises out of the ashes. Here for the first time since the late 1980's are new Doctor Who stories on British TV. Starting in April 2005 Doctor Who was reborn. Presented here are the first 3 episodes of the new series. It's a bare bones disc with no extras though. The first episode is "Rose". Here we meet Christopher Ecclestone as the Doctor and Billie Piper as soon to be companion Rose as well as her boyfriend Mikcey Smith. At first I liked both Ecclestone and Piper but went off them a bit later in the series (series 2 in the case of Rose). It's not bad for an introductory episode, reviving a race called the autons who ... Read the complete review
by - written on 10/09/08 (Very useful, 63 readings)
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Directors: Keith Boak (episode 1) and Euros Lyn. (episodes 2 and 3) Produces: Phil Collinson, Russell T. Davis, Julie Gardner, Mal Young Writer: Russell T. Davis and Mark Gatiss. The ninth doctor has finally arrived, this time with a vengeance, bringing the |Timelord and his Tardis back onto the small screen and DVDs...for some great science fiction entertainment with humour... Christopher Eccleston this time opens up the Tardis doors and wipes away the cobwebs after nine years... and what a FANTASTIC job he did with it... This series, first broadcast by the BBC in March 2005, would see many new creatures from other ... Read the complete review
by - written on 08/07/08 (Very useful, 35 readings)
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For the past 3 years or so, my wife has consistently watched the revival of Doctor Who, first with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, then with David Tennant taking over the role. She has been trying to persuade me to watch them, but it is something that I have never really been fussed with. Growing up at my parents' house, I would occasionally watched a rerun of one of the older Doctor Whos, such as Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, and I found them interesting, but I didn't really follow them and the aliens just seemed farcical to me. Fast forward to yesterday. Recently, the fourth series has ended in what my wife called a gobsmacking double episode that ... Read the complete review
